Re: [PHP] Email checking

[David Otton]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:28:01 -0700, you wrote:

like to be able to check to see that: the email is in the correct format and
the domain actually exists. Can anyone lend a hand?

[putting the try it this way bit first]

The only way to validate an email address is to try to send email to
it.

If you are doing anything where users add themselves to a mailing
list, then best practice is to use a double-opt-in. (this is what you
had to do when signing up to the PHP list).

a) user requests that their email address is signed up
b) a email with a unique subject line is sent to the address
c) when the email is replied to, the account goes live

This way, nobody can be added to the database maliciously, and you are
guaranteed to have a working email address.

However...

if (!ereg(([[:alnum:]\.\-]+)(\@[[:alnum:]\.\-]+\.+), $email)) {
$result = 'Not a valid email address';
}

checks that an email address parses ok.

list(,$domain) = split('@', $email);

should put the domain component in $domain. Now, you have to check
that an MX record exists for that domain. Here's a script that will
give you some idea of what you will be receiving:

http://www.declude.com/tools/lookup.php

If you want to be really paranoid, you can then connect to the host(s)
in the MX record on port 25 and check they have SMTP servers running.

Even when you've done all this:

1) The user portion of the address may be incorrect (a few SMTP
servers offer VRFY though).

2) The MX record may be wrong, and the SMTP server might refuse mail
for that domain

djo


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Re: [PHP] Email checking

[rm]

Have you tried:

http://zend.com/codex.php?CID=11


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Re: [PHP] Email checking

[Alexander Skwar]

So sprach »Max Mouse« am 2001-09-13 um 11:28:01 -0700 :
 the domain actually exists. Can anyone lend a hand?

My try:

 function CheckEmail($adr){
   // Parameter:
   // $adr  - Email Adress
   // Rückgabewerte:
   // TRUE  - everything fine
   // Else, returns array:
   // Array(code, part)
   // Code s.u.; part: Part which caused error
   // -1- no @ in adr
   // -2- More than 1 @ (alas theoretically correct...)
   // -3- Error in Local-Part 
   // -4- Error in Domainname
   // -5- Domain not existent
   // -6- No MX for Domain

   // Regexpe
   $re = array(
 // - Local-Part
 'lp'  = '[a-z_\d][-_.a-z\d]{0,}',
 // - Domain
 'dom' = '(?:[a-z\d]{1,}(?:[-a-z\d]{0,}?){0,}?\.){0,}[a-z]{2,3}\.{0,1}'
   );

   foreach ($re as $typ = $wert){
 $re[$typ] = '÷^' . $wert . '$÷i';
   }

   if (('' == $adr) ||
   (FALSE === ($parts = split('@', $adr)))
  ){
 // Nothing to do
 return array('code' = -1, 'part' = $adr);
   }
   if (2  ($part_anzahl = count($parts))){
 // Less than 1 @ (also 0)
 return array('code' = -2, 'part' = $adr);
   }
   if (2  $part_anzahl){
 // Too many @'s!
 return array('code' = -3, 'part' = $adr);
   }
   if (! preg_match($re['lp'], $parts[0])){
 // Local-Part error!
 return array('code' = -4, 'part' = $parts[0]);
   }
   if (! preg_match($re['dom'], $parts[1])){
 // Domain looks bogus!
 return array('code' = -5, 'part' = $parts[1]);
   }
   if (! checkdnsrr($parts[1], 'ANY')){
 // Domain not existant
 return array('code' = -6, 'part' = $parts[1]);
   }
   if (! checkdnsrr($parts[1], 'MX')){
 // No MX for domain
 return array('code' = -7, 'part' = $parts[1]);
   }

   // When we get here, everything is fine!
   return TRUE;
 }

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